Moovians

 

So  what has happened in the last eight episodes of “Alley Oop”, caveman universe hopper? The good news is that the story about the terrible Chrabs has ended. As we find out, they weren't really bad, they were just unhappy about being transported to a universe. As is par for the Sayers' course, no explanation of how 100 million Chrabs were transported or why they would attack only people who got into arguments. I guess it was “just because.” Lets have a brief review of the eight days in this epic tale: 5/27: Larry Chrab brings a horn to call 100 million Chrabs as if they all are close enough to hear. Joey apparently forgetting that they have some kind of super-hearing which allowed them to attack cowboys miles away who were only having a mild argument. 5/28: Doc uses a series of mirrors that came out of nowhere to amplify the power of the time-cube to help the Chrabs go home. Alley does a silly pose in front of the mirror supposedly to amplify himself. 5/29: Doc's...

 Gent and Wootie started this blog so that people who could no longer express their viewpoint on the "Alley Oop" GoComics webpage could have a place to do so freely. Although a lot (well, frankly, most) of the comments here have been on the negative side, it should be obvious that, as the number of followers of the strip continue to grow, there is a different point of view out there. The biggest advocate of how great the new version of the caveman is a guy named Joseph. To see how different his views are, read his blog "What's Going On In Alley Oop" (https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/tag/alley-oop/) where every few months he gives a summary of events in glowing, giddy terms. Read his reviews and be sure and vote on how you feel about them.

It makes one wonder... After the Alley Oop board, now that the Trucutu boards have vanished too, the true Alley Oop fans are left with no place to express themselves or to share the classics. Okay, they can express themselves here, but where does one go for the Alley Oop classics ? It makes one wonder that why does the current regime despise the long time Alley Oop fans so much. Many moons have passed, but yet many of the classics haven't been updated for Alley Oop, with large gaps that exist today between the classics on the Go Comics site. It makes one wonder that were the current creators jealous that fans were more interested in the classics than with their new nonsensical version? It makes one wonder that is that why they silenced both the boards where the fans shared the classics? It makes one wonder that why are people deprived of the classics. With book readers and newspapers fading away, and the digital medium taking over the preferred medium of comics readers an...

Another bunch of non sequiturs, as usual. So Oop knows all about Fenway Park? How? And why? Maybe for the concession stands but when would he have learned about those? The eating obsession continues with Oop also knowing, for some reason, what the sound of an ice cream truck is, and Doc's favourite also. Hard to say what he is going to pay for the ice cream with, maybe just strong arm the poor ice cream truck driver? Or if the driver is a fan of the NuOop and recognizes the dimwit, he may just comp the ice cream? For better or worse, we are stuck with this NuOop until Joey gets tired of writing it. John Glynn certainly chose her personally so he's not likely to pull the plug on it, although perhaps that would be the best thing for this moribund version of the strip. (Something really screwy with the type today. For some reason, the middle paragraph insists on being different from the first and last, no matter what changes I make. Oh well, at least it's readable so that...

Well, today's strip (strictly referring here to the rebooted strip) is actually a pretty decent gag-a-day. Not an adventure strip at all, but for a gag-a-day strip, this one wasn't bad. Let's hope there actually is a story that can be followed over the course of a month or so. Not keeping my fingers crossed however I guess that's damning by faint praise, but whatever. 😉

These are the scans from Unca's link to the Menomonee Falls newspaper of one of the best adventure/Western comic strips ever. Very good quality scans. Each file is a week of strips. Some weeks are missing due to corrupted zip's on the library site, but the basic story is easy to follow. If only the new Oop was written like this.😒 This is from my personal Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/ d/1KMAtpGOcBp0dogHC9Xwiueje- JILZpOG/view?usp=sharing

Don't recall Oop ever getting defensive about Ooola, except for the time in the Bender era (too lazy to look it up) when Ooola had some character who liked her and Oop came up with some berries or some such that put spots all over the guy's body. Sometime after 2009. Guess we'll see how this new robot fits in the picture of this (possibly) good arc with the pencil device.

Not much to say about the strip today, but a nice touch by Lemon is the use of the Time Machine from the 1960 movie in the title. https://www.auctionzip.com/auction-lot/The-Time-Machine-1960-Full-Size-Prop-Time-Mac_4C84FE5804/

Back in the late '90s there was a very limited run of a then-new Alley Oop comic book with work by Jack Bender, Dave Graue and a guy named Dan Davis. Davis was a huge fan of Alley Oop and worked briefly on the Alley Oop Sunday page with Bender. He currently is the artist on "Crankshaft" and recently published a new action comic book called "All Luck Comics". I came across this example of his artwork: I also found this post which clearly shows how much he likes our favorite caveman: Dan Davis  Says: January 5th, 2018 at 1:51 PM Beau that was great! I went right down memory lane with you recalling in the early 90’s sweating over every line of Guy Gardner hoping I was getting it right! I have my own lost story of misplacing a V.T.Hamlin original Alley Oop daily strip and letter he sent me when I was 10. He was very gracious and wrote a two page letter telling me about an upcoming story on Astrology he was planning. I had pulled it out from its safe sp...